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Too long Emerging Markets and Metals :mad: Ended down -2843 even though market was up. Pairs trades lost -1827, option selling lost the rest. Some of my datafeeds seem to be in over their head as well - my daily theta went from 700s to 1400s - had that never happen before. Interestingly my...

Def short vol and a trying market - the long bias of my systems doesn't help either. When the delta of my long (long stock or short puts) is > 75% of my shorts (short calls) I sell more short calls or roll the existing ones down - this is all automated. The trades are typically put on with a 2...

Initially I thought we had a language barrier cause I didn't understand your statement for obvious reasons - but you may be on to something. Bottom line is looking back I knew my systems worked well in a low volatility environment with very low interest rates. Now that that changed I guess I...

None of the trades are really day trades - swing trades at best.The average holding time for the pair trades is 6 days, the median is 3. The only stop I have is a time based stop - if pairs are not profitable after 30 days they are closed. The wheel strategy usually holds for ~ 30 days and...

The day did end green 418$ the reversal helped a lot. The wheel strategy (definitely more investment than trading) lost ~ $2700 (SLV, EEM and EWZ were biggest losers, on EEM/EWZ alone I'm down $18.000 for the year) The pairs trades made $3187. Remaining Margin/Buying Power: $308.000

This is where numbers get blurry - a fair comparison would only be across similar leverage/size imo.Just think you make 30% on 1M and you loose 90% on 200.000 - is that good or bad? good obviously since you've made net $$$ but bad when it comes to trading ability or confidence. Anyway - my...

It is for the most part - although that doesn't make it much easier - knowing your risk parameters and living through them is not the same.

Got the cars covered - I'm fairly cheap and my high schooler has a 2002 Nissan Xterra - seems perfectly fine for a 17yo. My daughter is in Boston studying data science and we're paying 80.000/year, the idea is that both kids get 300.000 for college, my daughter burned through her first 100.000...

Yep, 3.6M are tied up in primary home and a short term rental

Yep - I figure if I face my daily daemons it should help - especially when everyone can see :)

I was in software development - saw and learned (slowly) from the sidelines watching (loved the energy on the trading floor although only from a distance) - not all of them were successful though, that's for sure.

Hey guys - this looks like the perfect day to start my journal. If I look at my raw numbers I'm down -7083 so far today and -83132 for the year - the day is not over yet. Let me quickly introduce myself. My name is Matthias - I am a 48 yo software dev manager born in Germany living in Colorado...